The Project Portfolio Planning (P3) Methodology provides an organized and comprehensive process for developing project portfolios that support the business. The methodology is most appropriate for organizations that continually generate myriads of projects and project ideas that compete for a limited number of available resources. Issues addressed by the methodology include harvesting new project ideas, documenting the business case, evaluating projects on a consistent basis, prioritizing projects, selecting the best portfolio, and planning required resources.

This is the guide to the Total Cost Management (TCM) Framework - an integrated approach to project, program and portfolio management. Total Cost Management (TCM) is the sum of the practices and processes that an enterprise uses to manage the total life cycle cost investment in its portfolio of strategic assets.